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I am a senior research scientist in information retrieval at Yahoo!, based in Boston, MA. My research interests include information retrieval and web search.

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• I gave an invited talk at ECML/PKDD 2009 on Privacy in Web Search Query Logs
• Rosie Jones and Fernando Diaz had a patent awarded: "System and method for providing temporal search results in response to a search query"
• Along with Vik Singh, I gave a SIGIR 2009 tutorial on IR Prototypes and Web Search Hacks with Open Source Tools
• Along with Nick Craswell, Georges Dupret and Evelyne Viegas, I co-organized the WSDM 2009 workshop on web search click data WSCD09
• I am now a Senior Member of the ACM.
• Patent issued: System and methods for ranking the relative value of terms in a multi-term search query using deletion prediction